JORGE MACCHI - THE STATURE OF LIBERTY: Jorge Macchi

Drift bottle 7 (testigo de deriva) [Drift bootle 7 (drift witness)], is a plastic bottle of mineral water that contains inside the scale reproduction of a sailing ship. The title refers to the bottles, thrown into the sea with data on the date and place where they were thrown, to learn about the movement of surface currents. This piece is, at the same time, a message in a bottle, a world enclosed in a plastic bubble, and a distant reference to the Island of Plastic, the largest accumulation of plastic floating and moving in the Pacific Ocean.

The work La estrategia de la ameba [The Amoeba Strategy, 2022] is a self-moving suitcase on wheels that travels across the room; upon colliding with an obstacle (wall, object, plinth, visitor) it stops, turns 180 degrees and continues its journey until a new obstacle appears. The amoeba, lacking a nervous system, interacts with its surrounding environment through its cell membrane: when faced with a noxious, irritating or nutritional stimulus, it reacts in a primary way by approaching or moving away from it. The suitcase, in addition to being a stubborn and voracious visitor to the exhibition, constantly establishes new relationships between the works.

"The power of Jorge Macchi's work lies as much in what is said as in what is kept silent. It could be said that his work vacillates between large presences and absences: almost ghost-like, it operates according to what is revealed or vanishes in situations that perplex us. One of the main entities or phenomena that undergoes this manipulation in his work is sound, which comes before us in a wide variety of intensities, from mute evocations to elaborate compositions." (Alejandra Aguado)

Short story, Avión, Septiembre 2020, Mapa y Relief [Short story, Plane, September 2020, Map and Relief] are small works made with piano string that hang fragilely from the walls, and reduce scale schemes, calendar diagrams and folded papers almost to the point of their disappearance.

Confesión [Confession] is a cardboard box of a 50-inch smart TV with a ll of its sides hollowed in the shape of a cross repeated, like a module, which refers to the perforated metal of the confessionals. The box no longer holds any object but has been transformed by the action of the openwork into a visual instrument that allows a fragmented view of its interior and what is behind it.